I wanted to add more Wyllach propaganda! They're so fun because their stories are already DEEPLY intertwined. You know that post that goes
the most compelling ships for me always stem out of one thing: the characters have a profound, ongoing effect on each other's sense of selves. when they are apart, the characters' actions are still affected by each other. the way they approach the world changes because of the other.
That's Wyllach, in the actual text of the game. We see this happen for them, even if you don't play their romance!
Karlach begins the game having lost EVERYTHING to betrayal. She has unwillingly been stolen away and made into a monster, and her heart is literally and figuratively dying because of it. There is no future for her. But she is mad enough to fight! She wants to believe the world is better than it is, and she wants, very badly, to have a chance to live in it.
In Wyll, she finds someone fighting for that better world to exist -- and he chooses, again and again, to put himself on the line for HER future, too. She's spent ten miserable years alone as Hell's unwilling soldier, and it would be so easy to give in to cynicism and rage. But a world with people like Wyll in it? That's a world worth believing in.
Wyll begins the game larger than life: a dashing hero, a monster hunter, the savior of refugees -- but the paladin he seems to be is marred by the man he actually is. He has dealt with a devil for the power he uses to save people. More than anything, he wants to do good, but a devil's pact leads so easily to evil, no? His patron deceived him into hunting Karlach; he spares her, but in seven years of deception, how many other Karlachs did he not see?
In Karlach, he finds clarity and strength. She is kind and good despite everything, and she will never submit to the circumstances that have trapped her. To be the hero he wants to be, he MUST change, even though it will mean enduring punishment and horror -- but it's worth it to ensure people like Karlach have the chance to live.
They have both been isolated, deceived, and chucked into the blender, but in each other, they find a kindred spirit. As the game shows:
Wyll sacrifices his own humanity and hard-won reputation as a hero to ensure Karlach has a future.
And even though Karlach would canonically prefer to die rather than go back to the Hells that shackled her, she would do it to save him. (A lemure is a mindless devil that other devils enslave for the war effort.)
By the end of the game, Wyll is the only person outside of the PC who can convince Karlach to live. He offers protection and companionship knowing he has grown into someone who can actually keep those promises, and she will walk back into Hell on the strength of her belief in him.
And AS A FINAL BONUS, they also have a custom, just-for-them set of epilogue animations if they have romanced each other! Wyll blows a kiss and Karlach catches it, which is the cutest thing in the world.
It's like I always sometimes say: vote Wyllach! <3
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